Is Anne the *sole* author? Did the WG or others not contribute any text or suggested text to the spec? It seems like a bit of a slippery slope to attempt to designate a sole author for any W3C product. You might want to check with the pubs team on this matter.
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Arthur Barstow <[email protected]>wrote: > [ Sorry for the delayed response, I was choking on some turkey ... ] > > Here's what I did for the URL spec re the boilerplate to help address the > "attribution issue" re Anne and WHATWG: > > [[ > <http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/url/**raw-file/tip/Overview.html<http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/url/raw-file/tip/Overview.html> > > > > This Version: > > http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/url/raw-**file/tip/Overview.html<http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/url/raw-file/tip/Overview.html> > Latest WHATWG Version: > http://url.spec.whatwg.org/ > Previous Versions: > > http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/ED-**url-20120524/<http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/ED-url-20120524/> > Author: > Anne van Kesteren <[email protected]> > Editor: > Web Applications Working Group <[email protected]> > Former editors: > Adam Barth <[email protected]> > Erik Arvidsson <[email protected]> > Michael[tm] Smith <[email protected]> > ]] > > In the case of XHR, the new Editors would be listed as Editors and if they > made contributions to the spec, they would also be added to the Author list > too. > > If something like that would not be acceptable for the XHR ED, what > specific change(s) do you request? > > -Thanks, AB > > > >
